With a slowly growing market, a steady stream of emerging voices in both print and spoken word, and the establishment of several interesting small presses, English-language poetry in South Africa is in as good a place as it’s ever been. With...
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I first dreamed the dream that begins and ends this sequence of poems a long time ago, when I was still in South Africa and had no intention of leaving. The dream is recorded in a note- book that I...
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John Catt Educational Ltd has accepted for publication later this year what Jonty Driver describes as a “professional memoir”, an 80,000 word account of the various schools he worked in after his arrival in the U.K. in 1964, immediately after...
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Jonty Driver has written seven collections of poems (the first with Jack Cope), five novels, two biographies and a memoir. The memoir, My Brother & I, was published by Kingston University Press in 2013 and Jonty’s latest book, The Man...
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At tea-time on the afternoon of Friday 24 July 1964 a young white South African, John Harris, put down in the main concourse of Johannesburg station…a large brown suitcase containing eight sticks of dynamite, a quantity of Cordtex, a two-gallon...
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